THE ROLE: 

AMD is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff to lead client systems special projects and multigeneration strategy across our client platform portfolio. This role is designed for a senior technical leader operating at company scope, with deep experience spanning silicon design, system design, and platform integration, combined with a proven track record of technical leadership, crossorganizational influence, and strategic decisionmaking.

The Systems Design Engineer - Client Systems Special Projects & Strategy role operates horizontally across Client Systems, Architecture, SoC/Platform teams, Product Management, and Customer Engineering, addressing complex, highimpact problems that do not naturally reside within a single organization. The role focuses on nextgeneration and followon generation platforms (23 year horizon), influencing direction earlybefore architectural and program commitments are locked.

THE PERSON: 

This position requires exceptional systemslevel judgment, credibility with senior technical and engineering leadership, and the ability to lead through influence rather than authority. This person restores criticalsystemlevel and crossorganizational connective tissue across AMDs client platform ecosystemwithout adding organizational complexity. By combining silicon experience, systemlevel thinking, leadership credibility, and strategic scope, the role enables faster, higherquality decisions and ensures AMDs client platforms are architected deliberately for the future, not optimized one generation at a time.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Special Projects & Strategic Initiatives

• Lead highimpact special projects that span silicon, system, platform, and ecosystem boundaries, particularly where ownership is distributed across multiple organizations.
• Frame ambiguous technical and organizational problems, define scope and objectives, and drive alignment to resolution.
• Act as a singlethreaded technical owner for initiatives that exceed the normal capacity or charter of existing execution teams.

MultiGeneration Client System Strategy

• Drive and contribute to longrange client system strategy, shaping platform direction for nextgeneration and futuregeneration products (23 years forward).
• Identify systemlevel architectural opportunities and risks across compute, graphics, memory, I/O, power, thermals, firmware, and software integration.
• Ensure longlead system requirements are surfaced early and reflected in architectural and platform planning.

Silicon, Architecture, and Platform Alignment

• Partner closely with SoC Architecture, Platform Architecture, and Silicon Design teams to provide systeminformed input into architectural tradeoffs and capability planning.
• Influence SoC and platform decisions early, based on system behavior, integration risk, and realworld constraintswithout assuming formal architecture ownership.
• Translate systemlevel insights into actionable guidance for silicon and platform roadmap discussions.

CrossOrganization Technical Leadership

• Operate as a trusted senior technical peer to other senior engineers and technical leadershipacross Client Systems, Architecture, Product, and CE organizations.
• Drive crossfunctional alignment through technical credibility, structured reasoning, and clear communication.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the bar for systemlevel and strategic thinking across the organization.

Product and Customer Interface

• Provide systemlevel technical input to Product Management to support roadmap definition and prioritization.
• Partner with Customer Engineering to elevate recurring customer and ecosystem themes into forwardlooking system and platform strategy.
• Ensure external and ecosystem dependencies are factored into future platform decisions.

Scope & Impact

• Companylevel influence across multiple client product generations and platforms.
• Direct impact on architectural decisions, roadmap alignment, and execution effectiveness.
• Trusted technical authority for complex, underdefined initiatives spanning multiple organizations.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

Silicon & LowLevel Engineering Experience

• Direct experience in silicon design, silicon bringup, or SoC/platform integration, including interactions between hardware, firmware, and software.
• Working knowledge of SoC architecture, power/performance domains, memory subsystems, and I/O at a level sufficient to influence architectural decisions.
• Experience in silicon architecture, design, pre-silicon verification or post-silicon validation, with a focus on HW/SW co-design and SoC/platform integration, including hardware, firmware and software interactions

System Design & Platform Integration

• Extensive handson experience in client system design and platform integration, spanning HW/FW/OS/driver interactions.
• Proven ability to reason about endtoend system behavior rather than isolated components.
• Experience delivering or supporting complex client platforms through multiple product generations.
• Experience in power / performance tuning and strategies

Leadership & Engineering Management Exposure

• Demonstrated leadership in direct, matrixed or crossfunctional environments, including technical leadership roles, program leadership, or prior engineering management responsibilities.
• Experience influencing outcomes across teams without direct reporting authority.
• Background working with or leading senior engineering teams, architects, or platform groups.

Strategy & LongRange Planning

• Experience contributing to or owning multigeneration technical or platform strategy.
• Ability to connect technical depth to strategic business outcomes, including roadmap tradeoffs and longlead decision making.
• Demonstrated comfort operating with ambiguity and incomplete data.

ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS:

• Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent required.
• Masters or PhD in a relevant discipline strongly preferred.

LOCATIONS: 

This role is open to Markham, Ontario, Canada (preferred) or Austin, Texas. 

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship. 

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